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Gay marriage lead to polygamy

Mormons were widely thought to have engaged in bacchanals, what moderns call sex parties. On the Republican side, I think we will be united in the lame duck [session] and the study I would be looking for is asking military members: By abolishing polygamy as a legal form of marriage, western societies took a step without which modern liberal democracy and egalitarian social structures might have been impossible: But that argument misses a key factor in the cultural shift on same-sex marriage: One is that polygamous weddings, unlike gay ones, actually harm other people — by reducing the number of potential mates, dooming some to singlehood. The question for us is who should decide these things? So if a state for some reason wants to have same-sex unions and recognizes it as a marriage that federal legislation would allow South Carolina not to recognize that situation. Steve Chapman Contact Reporter The gay marriage decision should make us think about legalizing polygamy.

Would Gay Marriage Lead To Legal Polygamy?

The British Columbia Attorney General obtained advice from constitutional experts that the Charter's guarantee of religious freedom would override any legislation prohibiting polygyny. Some arguments for this position are:. The Mormon response then was instructive for today's polygamists.